LIV - Sonnet to a Black Pope

at the cave on the mount the State was shown
a fascinating serpent in the air
to be fastened on ...

LIII - Sonnet to Sir John Golafre

the disease goes on that was once life
until the eyes and face were wasted
the sockets sunken and ribs ...

LII - Sonnet along Broad Street

the old man young followed by young man old
one after the other along Broad Street -
the two of them ...

LI - Sonnet on an Early Death

I found the death I was looking for
by the road - a roe deer struck by traffic
the hindquarters a ...

L - Sonnet for Tyutchev

the corpse came down the river - struck fast
on the bank till it was partly pulled up
bare-headed and splintered ...

XLIX - Sonnet on the Florentine Republic

the Masque of Florence is the whole city
dressed chimerically as foxes
and lions intent on calamity
while the divided ...

XLVIII - Sonnet on Keats

Cockney lads took to the trees like drapers
to cut out fabrics harvested from Herbst
and Hades - made Morris & ...

XLVII - Sonnet where Meillassoux Tracks Emily Dickinson

storm’s electric moccasins are charged
for running down the wartrail - for pacing
through the woods - and nothing is camouflaged
from ...

XLVI - Sonnet on Su Dongpo - for the Mid-Autumn Festival

it was Autumn the season for justice
when the political economy
of verse was decided at Crow Terrace -
after the ...

XLV - Sonnet on Byron's "Faliero"

the serene republic having fallen
Lord Byron decided to insert
virtu back into the tarpaulined
marina - his lovers in that ...